Empire of the Sun

Buzz about Empire of the Sun's over-the-top live production preceded its arrival Tuesday night at Summerfest's Miller Lite Oasis. The electronic-focused Australian group didn't disappoint on that front early in the headlining set. After a 10-minute bass-pounding, Daft Punk-sampling set from DJ Rik Fade, neon light-wrapped dancers twirled across a stage bathed in the blue glow of a bright LED screen. "Old Flavours" was an intense spectacle of bouncy synthesizers, throbbing beats and blinding lights. | July 3, 2013»Read Full Article(1)

Chris Schulist, a longtime Milwaukee musician and bar manager at the Cactus Club in Bay View, and Jim McCann, a partner in Longman & Eagle in Chicago, are the managing partners. Shay Linkus, formerly at Odd Duck in Bay View, will be the chef. | April 2, 2014»Read Full Blog Post(2)

A student at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tenn., the 20-year-old Wave (birth name Radontae Ashford II), was eating wings with friends when Yo Gotti started following him on Twitter. Yes, Yo Gotti, the hard-hitting, Memphis-based rapper whose last album, "I Am," debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard album charts in November. | April 2, 2014»Read Full Article(2)

ABC's "World News Tonight" told the Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday that the network will air its segment on the Brewers' ballpark pup during Wednesday's 5:30 p.m. newscast. The segment, shot Monday during Miller Park's opening-day festivities, had been scheduled to run Monday, then Tuesday, but was deferred by news. | April 2, 2014»Read Full Article(1)

Chicago — "Sooner or later," Wilson Mizner says to his long-suffering brother, "we're bound to get it right."

Those are the closing words in Stephen Sondheim's"Road Show," and they've lingered in my mind since seeing Chicago Shakespeare Theater's excellent new production of this 100-minute, intermission-free chamber musical — probably because they so accurately foretell the end of the twisting, 14-year road traveled by Sondheim and John Weidman (book) in making it. | April 2, 2014»Read Full Article

Updike wrote the slight "Archangel" in 1960 on an extended visit to Anguilla, one of the British Virgin Islands, where he had gone for some sunny relief for his psoriasis. The New Yorker turned it down, so he published it later that year in the short-lived Chicago literary quarterly Big Table. | April 2, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

It's hard to know how Milwaukee will respond to temperatures up and over 50 this spring. Underpants volleyball perhaps? Slip 'N' Slide on Wisconsin Ave.? This city will bust open with humanity like a pinata, we predict.